Note 10/30/2018 The 1 on 2 tile, 2 tile and 3 tile arches and the 2 tile french doors can't be used on apartment lots. You'll get an invalid apartment notification when you try and change the lot zoning. Why that happens I do not know but it does. Update 7/23/2018 Updated the wallmasks on the short windows.Fixed 7/17/2018 Updated the files to fix a GUID conflict with the Oaktown Door. If you downloaded before 7/17 you can delete and re-download the Bespoke Build Set for the fix or download the individual file from Sim File Share and allow it to overwrite the HW_doorExterior_Single-1t_diagonal package. Sorry for the inconvenience.

BESPOKE BUILD SET
I like to build the mix of houses you'd find in the typical American suburb (often from house plans) so this set doesn't faithfully follow any particular build style. It's a nice, versatile set of windows, doors and miscellaneous bits and pieces suitable for the houses I like to build. I tried to keep the info as to the point as possible. Hopefully I conveyed everything you need to know but maybe not. If you have any questions please ask.

Click the buttons for details.

COLOR PALETTE & RECOLORS

The set comes with a huge palette of colors in a range of shades to mix and match. The colors may be familiar because I did my best to use existing build and buy objects to create the palette. I also used Shastakiss's pirate wood colors because they're amazing. I kept the color name the same as the source but keep in mind that I didn't use the textures so these aren't going to be exact matches and may look nothing like the original. Example: Oak is clearly not oak wood.

The recolors are tiny file and guilt free - just 5kb each - so keep as many colors as you like.

WINDOWS

Name

Bespoke Privacy Window

Bespoke Octogon Privacy Window

Bespoke Double Hung Window

Bespoke Classical Window - Short

Bespoke Classical Window

Bespoke Classical Window - Tall

Catalog

Windows

Price

60-63

80-83

90-91

300-301

302-303

304-305

Polygons

156

324

488

707

732

836

Subsets

Interior and Exterior

Versions

High and Low with all centered on 1 & 2 tiles | Diagonals

Centered on 1 & 2 tiles | Diagonals

File Name

windowPrivacy

windowOctogon

windowDoubleHung

windowClassicalShort

windowClassical

windowClassicalTall

Requires

Bespoke Build Set master file.

Name

Bespoke Colonial - Short

Bespoke Colonial - Single

Bespoke Colonial - Tall

Bespoke Colonial Short with Shutters

Bespoke Colonial with Shutters

Bespoke Colonial Tall with Shutters

Catalog

Windows

Price

170-171

172-173

174-175

195-196

197-198

199-200

Polygons

608

628

648

740

760

780

Subsets

Interior and Exterior

Window and Shutters

Versions

Centered on 1 & 2 tiles | Diagonals

File Name

windowColonialShort_single

windowColonial_single

windowColonialTall_single

windowColonialShort_Single-Shutter

windowColonial_Single-Shutter

windowColonialTall_Single-Shutter

Requires

Bespoke Build Set master file.

Name

Bespoke Colonial Short - Double

Bespoke Colonial - Double

Bespoke Colonial Tall - Double

Bespoke Colonial Short with Shutters - Double

Bespoke Colonial with Shutters - Double

Bespoke Colonial Tall with Shutters - Double

Catalog

Windows

Price

245-246

247-248

249-250

270-271

272-273

274-275

Polygons

908

948

988

1040

1080

1120

Subsets

Interior and Exterior

Window and Shutters

Versions

Centered on 2 & 3 tiles | Diagonals

File Name

windowColonialShort_Double

windowColonial_Double

windowColonialTall_Double

windowColonialShort_Double-Shutter

windowColonial_Double-Shutter

windowColonialTall_Double-Shutter

Requires

Bespoke Build Set master file.

DOORS & ARCHES Issues: The 1 on 2 tile, 2 tile and 3 tile arches and the 2 tile French doors can't be used on apartment lots. You'll get an invalid apartment notification when you try and change the lot zoning. Why that happens I do not know but it does.

USE: Place the stairs as usual and use the design tool to recolor each step.

CONFLICTS The Steadfast Stairs will conflict with Huge Lunatic's recolorable version and any recolors you have will not work with mine. There was no getting around that - the names needed to be changed to add the second subset and for the recolors to show in neighborhood view.

The green deck stairs have never been defaulted (as far as I'm aware) so you shouldn't have any issues with those.

RECOLORING: You can recolor these like normal or, if you want to use my templates for tiny file recolors, the texture names are:

Credit and thanks to Numenor and Lunie for making these recolorable first. I wouldn't have had the first clue where to start if not for their work.

MAILBOX SHELF & RECOLORS

Name

Mailbox Shelf

Mailbox Shelf - Mail only by Pescado

Catalog

Buy Mode: Shelves

Price

25

Polygons

92

Subsets

Wood

File Name

mailboxShelf

mailboxShelf_hackedPescado

Function

A coffee table for the mailbox. Shiftable.

A coffee table for the mailbox that only holds mail. Shiftable.

Requires

Slaved to the Maxis mailbox. | Credits: Windkeeper and Pescado

34 Bespoke Recolors of the mailbox post - M&G Required

BLATHER: I recolored the mailbox to match my build set. Later, I came across Michelle's recolors of Windkeeper's mailbox cover and I thought it would be nice to have that option. I wasn't about to do another 34 recolors of Windkeeper's mailbox so I made a stand alone shelf slaved to the original mailbox instead. A year later I came across Pescado's hacked version of Windkeeper's mailbox cover (that only accepts mail) and I thought that was a good idea too so I made the same shelf again, this time cloned from Pescado's version.

TL;DR Here's two new shelves that serve the exact same purpose as the existing objects by Windkeeper & Pescado (Hacked Windkeeperian) because I hate to recolor.

ROOF RECOLORS

36 Manor roof recolors

Texture referencing so your default replacement roof trims will work with these too.

Maxis textures except for the vinyl - that was from a long ago sourced wallpaper sample.

RECOLORING
Everything is slaved to the Bespoke Build Set master file. (It's a package file that doesn't have an ingame mesh so no one ends up needing to keep an object they don't want.) If you want to recolor the set you'd use the Master File like usual. The set was designed with templates/tiny file recolors in mind and they're recommended. If you want to use my templates for recolors the texture names are:

The stairs are default replacements and have their own textures. (Recolor the stairs.)

The mailbox shelves are slaved to the Maxis mailbox. (Recolor the mailbox.)

TERMS OF USE: None.

INSPIRATION: So much about this set is the result of the Sims 2 community it felt wrong not to acknowlege that in a small way. I've used pheonix_pharie's Modern Georgian Manor set for absolutely ages and think it's just about perfect so this set was heavily influenced by theirs. Nysha and Raynuss both came out with really nice sets when I was actively making these so they had an influence. Not to mention Lee who introduced me to the wonders of centered windows and doors, MLC for her lovely porch sets, fansee who once wanted columns that hid in cutaway view, ekrubynaffit who was looking for blue roof trim once upon a time, and more recently Peni Griffin who's posts made me go back and make sure as much of this set as possible could be used without cheats.

Polygon Counts:
Generally low to average. The gingerbread and flower boxes are comparatively high and worth taking note of but nothing is outrageous. See post for exact counts.

Additional Credits:
Lamare, Chris Hatch and d4RE who offered help and answered my questions. SimPe, AGS, Milkshape and Photoshop. Maxis for the meshes and textures and MTS for hosting and the new tables.

Thank you! Love the colors, variety of detail on doors and windows and that peephole on the doors is great. (:

LadySilverwolf

15th Jul 2018 6:51 AM

More flavor to build with.
thank you for the love and devotion you put into your work.
and... of course, thank you for sharing that love!

nutese

15th Jul 2018 6:53 AM

Wow! Thank you very much. *-*

tyraKeiraSims

15th Jul 2018 7:38 AM

I honestly teared up a little upon seeing this... I can't thank you enough for this set.

ekrubynaffit

15th Jul 2018 7:59 AM

My husband just called me cray cray, as Im sitting here gasping going ohhhh look at it all!! Have only just finished a house I've been working on for ages and now I'm looking at this set thinking maybe I should change out all the windows and doors!!! (I won't but I can picture it!)
Thanks Honey for another amazing set!!!

Justpetro

15th Jul 2018 10:08 AM

Wow Stunning work again! My hood is going to be Honeywelled

poisson

15th Jul 2018 10:59 AM

Honeywell, it's just sublime and extremely well made!! Thank you so much!!

FranH

15th Jul 2018 11:31 AM

Oh, Honeywell, you're going to make me have to throw out most of my build section to fit all of your lovely set into it...but I really don't mind, because it's all the same style!
Thank you so much for your hard work! It's wonderful to still have great creators like you in the community!

In case you haven't figured out how in love with this I am yet: it's a bit after 6:30 in the morning here. The only reason I'm up is that the cat demanded his breakfast (which he nibbled at and he is now sunning himself in the window, the brat) - I thought "Ah, I'll check MTS and a couple sites first...". My game was running, it's now ended and this set is already in my downloads and I'm just about to restart my game. I'm gonna try to go back to sleep for a bit but I dunno, I know how long it takes for my game to load, lol.

Thanks for this lovely gift HW!

Edit: Finally got to play around with this set and I have got to say - it is flippin' gorgeous and everything I've always wanted in a build set (and was obviously too lazy to make myself, lol.)

shastakiss

15th Jul 2018 12:59 PM

areyoukiddingme!? I absolutely love to build and I absolutely love this set - thank you! I'm really looking forward to playing with it and I sincerely appreciate all the wonderful space-saving elements and your careful attention to detail ♥

billielith

15th Jul 2018 1:07 PM

This is just amazing! It must have been so much work! Thanks for sharing it. So many possibilities. Awesome!

s4rts4

15th Jul 2018 1:59 PM

This is the ultimate build set. It's going straight to my favorites that get thrown into every downloads folder. Thanks for creating and sharing this with us all. Can't wait to try it out!

CatherineTCJD

15th Jul 2018 4:28 PM

Brills! Abso-floggin-lutely brilliant! That you so much for sharing!

Honeywell

15th Jul 2018 5:28 PM

Thank you all for the nice comments - you're what makes all of the time needed to share large sets worthwhile.

altanna

15th Jul 2018 5:46 PM

This build set is beyond beautiful! I can'r wait to load my game and check out all the [email protected] Thank you so much for continuing to make things for Sims 2.

Marioneve

15th Jul 2018 6:27 PM

Beautiful set, can't wait to use it in my game! Thank you very much for sharing ♥

Amairani

15th Jul 2018 6:30 PM

You have done a marvelous job...again Your creations always a must-have!

Aquagloups

15th Jul 2018 6:35 PM

Love it ! I've been looking for a garage door like this for ages... And these colours are very pretty ! Thanks a lot

David111567

15th Jul 2018 6:51 PM

Omg.... Flippin' Awesome!

moseaclaidin

15th Jul 2018 7:11 PM

I'm a really bad house builder. They really just look like shipping containers, square next to square =home
I LOVE that you put all the pictures of your homes with the set. They look just like driving down a real street. They are going to enable me to actually use your set to make houses that actually look like real homes! So excited!! Thank you for sharing so much in the set and pictures!

Qahne

15th Jul 2018 7:42 PM

This is the best build mode content I have seen for TS2 since...maybe forever. Thank you so much Honeywell, keep it coming!